Traders: "Kill me now" OORP?

[hribek]

I believe a separate forum for Sigma-13 rants would be in order:)

Other than that, if traders dropped most of their cargo upon destruction, the problem is solved. The pirates can happily blow them up and tractor all the loot.

The drop rates are rather low now, which is the problem why Pirates don't like blowing traders up when they refuse. Sometimes the loot doesn't even pay your repair costs.

At the whining <strike>bi...</strike> trader above me. If you find it unfair that you'll have to trade 2 weeks to buy that incredi-awesome battleship instead of just 1 week, you might need to consider a different route that doesn't involve corsair space, or a system that has high piracy activity. Pirates rob tradeships, you should be happy we're not asking money AND all cargo.

Yup. Blame yourself for not having escorts or going into pirate-populated areas. Or blame your local police / military. Because pirates are "unfair" - they are mean, and will always be. They are bad. Evil. Dangerous, in any shape or form. You can fight them, bribe them or avoid them.

But telling pirates how unfair they are - might work in some cases, since people play bad guys but aren't really bad for real. But the rest will just ignore it or pirate you even more.